by David Edgar · Nick Hern Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781854590510
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«Shorts» is a collection of short stage plays by David Edgar, published by Nick Hern Books in paperback (160 pages, in English).
The volume brings together short pieces written for the stage and television: «Blood Sports», a series of sporting sketches; «Ball Boys», an unlikely encounter between Marx and tennis; «Baby Love», the story of a baby snatching; «The National Theatre», a version of «Las tres hermanas» in a strip club; and «The Midas Connection», an ironic look at the gold trade.
Published in 1989, «Shorts» is part of the NHB Modern Plays series from Nick Hern Books.
Suitable for theatre groups with limited time or resources and for readers interested in contemporary British playwriting.
David Edgar is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio and television around the world, making him one of the most prolific dramatists of the post-1960s generation in Great Britain. He was resident playwright at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1974–75 and has been a board member there since 1985. Awarded a Fellowship in Creative Writing at Leeds Polytechnic, he was made a Bicentennial Arts Fellow (US) (1978–79).
